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Measuring local government technical (in)efficiency: An application and comparison of FDH, DEA and econometric approaches

Geys, Benny; Moesen, Wim - 2008

Economic efficiency – understood in terms of jurisdictions providing a maximum amount of output for a given level of inputs – is one potential means to evaluate public policies. Various approaches, however, co-exist to measure the (technical) efficiency of organizations. Given that these...

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Changes in hospital efficiency after privatization

Tiemann, Oliver; Schreyögg, Jonas - 2011

We investigated the effects of privatization on hospital efficiency in Germany. To do so, we obtained bootstrapped DEA efficiency scores in the first stage of our analysis and subsequently employed a difference-in-difference matching approach within a panel regression framework. Our findings...

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Benchmarking in Tourism Destination, Keeping in Mind the Sustainable Paradigm

Bosetti, Valentina; Cassinelli, Mariaester; Lanza, … - 2006

Tourism destination benchmarking and the assessment of tourism management performances are a crucial and challenging …

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Valuing Environmental Factors in Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Kuosmanen, Timo - 2006

Environmental cost-benefit analysis (ECBA) refers to social evaluation of investment projects and policies that involve significant environmental impacts. Valuation of the environmental impacts in monetary terms forms one of the critical steps in ECBA. We propose a new approach for environmental...

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A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach to the Assessment of Natural Parks Economic Efficiency and Sustainability. The Case of Italian National Parks

Bosetti, Valentina; Locatelli, Gianni - 2005

thus crucial to create incentives to efficient management practices, to promote benchmarking and to improve conservation … management. In the present paper we propose a methodology based on Data Envelopment Analysis, DEA, a non parametric benchmarking … external benchmarking, thus providing new and different perspectives on potential improvements. Although the proposed …

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Effects of Ownership on Hospital Efficiency in Germany

Tiemann, Oliver; Schreyögg, Jonas - In: BuR - Business Research 2 (2009) 2, pp. 115-145

The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1,046) of public, private for-profit, and private...

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Efficiency Analysis of German Electricity Distribution Utilities : Non-Parametric and Parametric Tests

von Hirschhausen, Christian R.; Cullmann, Astrid - 2005

distribution companies in Germany. We address traditional issues in electricity sector benchmarking, such as the role of scale …

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Fiscal decentralization and public sector efficiency: evidence from OECD countries

Adam, Antonis; Delis, Manthos D.; Kammas, Pantelis - 2008

This paper attempts to identify the effect of fiscal decentralization on public sector efficiency (PSE). We employ data envelopment analysis on a panel of 21 OECD countries over the period 1970-2000 to construct two alternative PSE indicators that reflect the governmental goals of economic...

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Economies of scope in European railways: an efficiency analysis

Growitsch, Christian; Wetzel, Heike - 2006

In this paper, we conduct a pan-European efficiency analysis to investigate the performance of European railways with a particular focus on economies of vertical integration. We test the hypothesis that integrated railways realize economies of scope and, thus, produce railway services with a...

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Overcoming data limitations in nonparametric benchmarking: applying PCA-DEA to natural gas transmission

Nieswand, Maria; Cullmann, Astrid; Neumann, Anne - 2009

This paper provides an empirical demonstration for a practical approach of efficiency evaluation against the background of limited data availability in some regulated industries. Here, traditional DEA may result in a lack of discriminatory power when high numbers of variables but only limited...

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